Blog Entry #15- Meet the Toddler who survived breat cancer

Four year old Aleisha Hunter is a member of a very small survivor's club: At Age 2, she was stricken with breast cancer. Her mother noticed a pea sized lump on the left side of her daughter's chest and took her to the doctors, who at first didn't know what was wrong. Aleisha, who lives in Ontario, Canada, was eventually diagnosed with juvenile breast carcinoma, an extremly rare form of breast cancer. As the lump grew, it became painful, and Aleisha had trouble eating and sleeping.Aleisha was in a fair bit of pain, because the tumor was stretching the tissue, so it actually came as somewhat of a relief in a sense because the pain was gone after her surgery," Dr. York said. When Aleisha was 3, she had a radical modified mastectomy, which means doctors at North York General Hospital removed her entire nipple, areola, breast tissue and the lymph nodes under her left arm. During Aleisha's hospital stay, her mom — and her teddy bear — stayed at her side. Now Aleisha is cancer-free, and doctors say her prognosis is good. Aleisha will eventually need reconstructive surgery, but for now, her biggest priority is preschool.

I believe that it is really sad that a little girl at age 3 she is already experiencing a rare form or breast cancer. I am so glad that she is cancer free and she survived through this process of her coming out ok because sometimes people don't come out very good out of some of the procedures that they try on people. It makes me sad that they sometimes don't come out of the procedures and especially when she was so young.What a miracle that they were able to detect this cancer and treat it while she is so young. A shame that she had to go thru such a painful and involved surgery. It's interesting that there is even this form of juvenile breast cancer.

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